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Patented July 25, 1916.

LOUIS I-I. SOISSON, OF SGOTTDALE, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO EUGENE F. SOISSON, OF LATROBE, PENNSYLVANIA.

HEDGE-TRIMMER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

ratenteu July es, isis.

Application filed October 28, 1915. Serial No. 58,448.

To @ZZ al1/1,0m t may concern Be it known that I, Louis H. SoissoN, a` citizen of the United States, residing at Scottdale, in the county of lVestmoreland and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hedge-Trimmers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to garden -implements or tools and more particularly to a novel hand operated instrument for trimming hedge plants.

To this end, the invention contemplates a simple and practical cutting tool that .may be conveniently held in one hand, and manipulated by the other with ease and facility in substantially the same manner as a pair of shears.

In this connection, the invention also has in view a device that may be easily moved and guided over a hedge growth to clip or trim the same, while at the same time owing to the character of the cutting blades being especially adapted to cut a maximum surface with accuracy and rapidity.

Another object of the invention is to provide a` device of this character wherein the cutting instrumentalities have a free sliding movement through the utilization of simple and substantial operating connections which reliably perform their functions and which may be provided at a minimum expense and easily kept vin working order and condition with little or no difficulty.

With the above and other objects in view which will more readily appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in the novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter more fully described, illustrated and claimed.

A preferred and practical embodiment of the invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a plan view of the instrument in its normal position. Fig. 2 is a plan view in its open position. Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectional view on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1. Fig. lis a transverse sectional view on the line 4--11 of Fig.' 1.

Similar reference characters designate corresponding parts throughout the several figures of the drawings.

A novel and distinctive feature ofy the present invention is to provide an implement of the character set forth wherein one handle member may be held still while the other is moved to operate the cutting blade. Accordingly, as will be obvious from,Fig. 1, the device embodying this novel feature essentially includes a rigid body member 1 having rigidly secured thereto as indicated at 2, a fixed handle member 3 which affords a convenient means whereby the entire device maybe supported when in use. This body portion 1 is provided with a saw-tooth cutting edge 1l, and at the edge opposite the cutting teeth is provided with a longitudinally extending strip 5 which is secured to the body by the fastenings 6 and provided with the guideway 7 for receiving the back edge of a reciprocating cutter blade 8. This reciprocating cutter blade is therefore free to slide on the body or back member 1, and is provided with cutting teeth 9 which cooperate with the cutting teeth- 4L of the back. In addition to being guided on the back member 1 in the guideway 7, the said reciprocating cutter blade may be also guided by the upstanding pins 10 carried by the back and projecting through the longitudinally disposed slots 11 in the cutter blade. These pins 10 may be provided with suitable clamping nuts 12 as shown to maintain the cutter blade in close sliding relation to the back, and thereby secure a maximum cutting efficiency.

The end of the cutter blade 8 adjacent the handle portion of the device has secured thereto an operating link 13, which is provided with an angular foot portion 14 having a slot 15 which is disposed substantially transverse of the back member 1. This slot 415 receives an upstanding pin 16 carried by the angular vportion 17 of the movable handle designated in its entirety as 18. This handle member which includes a hand grip and the angular portion 17 swings on a pivot 19, located at the extremity of the said angular portion. This point may be also utilized as means for rigidly fastening the fixed handle 3 to the back or body 1. Thus, as the handle 18 is reciprocated or swung on its pivot 19, it will be clear that the cutter blade 8 is given a reciprocating motion over the back 1 so that the teeth 9 thereof cross the teeth 4 of the back to thereby effect the cutting action. Accordingly, it will be clearly apparent that the present device may be readily grasped in one hand by thehandle 3, and operated with the other hand by v grasping and manipula-ting the handle 18, to thus move the cutter blade 8. Owing to the special construction of the connections between the movable handle 18 and the re ciprocating cutter blade, thelatter ywill have a free sliding movement.

From the foregoing, it is thought that operation and many features and advan-V i member having a plurality of cutter teeth and guide means, a fixed handle carried by said back member7 a reciprocating cutter Copies of this patent may be obtained for blade also having a plurality of cutter teeth carried upon said back member and workingy in the guide meansthereof, and a movable handle having an; angular end portion the extremity of which is pivoted to the face of the back member, a pin carried by said angularV end portion, Vand a relatively narrow extension member carried by the end of said reciprocating cutter blade and having an angular end, said member being arranged to provide a working clearance for the angular end of the movable handle, and the angularend thereof havinga slot for receiving said pin. a y,

Y In testimony whereof I hereunto aiiX my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

S. WILEY, R. B. TEDRoW.

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